Exception.Message = "The text associated with this error code could not be found. The certificate authority is invalid or incorrect"

It is strange because we’ve never modified any code, certification, configuration on server or client app, neither our certification was expired. After hundreds of attempts and tests, in short, we finally made it by including only the root certificate instead of the certificate issued to the target domain.

For example, if we want to protect your communication with https://ranger.im, whose SSL certificate path is like below

For now, let’s view and copy its Root CA “Baltimore CyberTrust Root” to your Store App project and forget previous one for *.ranger.im. Then everything will work fine like before.

In our previous practice, we just put the .CER file issued to *.ranger.im into Package.appxmanifest/Declarations/Certificates and it ran well. However it no longer works and we may see errors saying the CA is invalid. We thought that Windows may have changed some logic of the certification exclusive trust in some patch after last December, but we so far haven’t found any clue about that.

Then, if Fiddler tries to capture the https traffic and acts a “man-in-the-middle” by changing the certificate chain, the Web operation in code will throw the same error message The certificate authority is invalid or incorrect. Although our previously expected error HttpRequestException whose message {"The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel."} looks more suitable may never appear again, now it just works.

It seems that we are the only one discussing about the “Exclusive Trust” mechanism for store app on the internet. Hope it helps if anyone encounters the same problem or scenario.